{"id":362,"date":"2002-02-24T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2002-02-24T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/lots-of-moves-and-casey-turns-30\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:48:10","slug":"lots-of-moves-and-casey-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/lots-of-moves-and-casey-turns-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of moves, and Casey turns 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9041,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.speakeasy.net&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303200911\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.speakeasy.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 16:44:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:28:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 17:31:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 18:10:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 02:16:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 02:16:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little tired right now, and kind of sore (there&#8217;s a nasty flu bug going around that I think I might be catching), but I wanted to toss a quick post up before I crashed out for the night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/02\/graphics\/candice_bed.jpg\" title=\"Candice in her new room\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Candice in her new room\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/02\/graphics\/candice_bed-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve spent much of the past couple weekends helping Candice move. She was able to get a new room in a different wing of the college, so she&#8217;s out of the standard dorm situation. A much bigger room, with a bathroom <em>all her own<\/em> &#8212; she&#8217;s quite excited about this. Can&#8217;t say as how I blame her, either &#8212; I know I&#8217;m really enjoying having my own space rather than the roommate situation I&#8217;ve been in ever since I moved out of my folks&#8217; house.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of moving, it appears that my move is going forward as well. I&#8217;ve given Melvin my rental application, and he&#8217;s said I should be ready to move in on March 15th. This will most likely mean that my webpage will be offline for a while (grrrrrrr&#8230;) as I get the DSL line transferred over to the new apartment. I&#8217;ve got a bad feeling it could be as much as a month to a month and a half, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakeasy.net\/\" title=\"Speakeasy\">Speakeasy<\/a> apparently can&#8217;t connect a DSL line until I&#8217;ve had a phone line up for a month, plus there&#8217;s the time for the connection to actually get made. Ah, well&#8230;so it goes&#8230;I&#8217;ll make it as short a time as possible, however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/02\/graphics\/kittylittercake.jpg\" title=\"The kitty litter cake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The kitty litter cake\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/02\/graphics\/kittylittercake-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Casey hit that wonderful <strong>30<\/strong> about two weeks ago, but everyone&#8217;s been so busy that we weren&#8217;t able to have the party until this weekend. However, it ended up going pretty well. Dez made an absolute masterpiece of a cake, as you can see in the picture here &#8212; a kitty litter cake! I don&#8217;t think I remember quite all of it, but I think it was crumb cake and white cake crumbled into pieces and mixed with pudding, put into a litterbox, with a litter scooper for a cutting\/serving tool, and complete with Tootsie Rolls melted and formed into the right shapes to serve as kitty poop! Dez was bouncing around the kitchen when I showed up, completely thrilled with herself for creating this thing &#8212; and I laughed as soon as I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s wonderful having sick friends sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/02\/graphics\/caseyeatspoop.jpg\" title=\"Casey eats kitty poop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Casey eats kitty poop\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2002\/02\/graphics\/caseyeatspoop-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>The cake was a hit with the rest of the group too &#8212; once they could convince themselves that it actually <em>was<\/em> edible (though one or two of them had to remove any &#8216;poop&#8217; from their plate before they could actually eat any of it). We all sat and talked and joked around for the evening, and it was a pretty nice night. They&#8217;d done the whole party with a &#8216;white trash&#8217; theme, complete with weenie wraps, pork rinds, and cheeze-in-a-can for the crackers, and to top it all off (aside from the cake, of course) &#8212; pig&#8217;s feet! The pigs feet even got sampled, too, though I decided that that was one culinary adventure I <em>really<\/em> didn&#8217;t need to explore. In any case, was a good evening. Candice and I stayed until a bit after 11pm, when she ran me home, and she went back out to campus.<\/p>\n<p>And that pretty much catches up to where we are now. 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